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Wow, it’s December 1st already! That means it’s time to talk about November favorites. Here are the polishes that I was loving last month:

The first one is Wet n Wild Fergie – Gold Album. This is just the prettiest, sparkliest gold polish. I love it more every time I use it! Here I used it for the leaves in this my Golden Leafy Nails.

The base for these nails is NYC – Royal Chic. I am seriously in love with this polish right now. I know I’ve said this before, but it is just the perfect chocolate brown. It’s such a rich color. So dark, but it never looks black. I also used Royal Chic as the base for these next nails:

The polish I’m holding is one of my favorites for November also. It’s Spoiled – Vitamin C. These polishes are available exclusively at CVS for $1.99.

Vitamin C is pretty sheer on its own. It takes about 4 coats to be opaque. It’s almost an orange jelly base with tons of orangey-gold shimmer. I’ve layered it over orange polish in the past, but this is the first time I’ve ever tried to layer it over a darker polish. I was actually really surprised with the results! I fully expected it to add a bright orange shimmer to my nails, but it it really more of a golden – almost greenish – shimmer. I always love to discover that polish I have owned for a while can be worn some new and different way.

Here’s another one of my favorites:

This is NYC – Precious Peacock. This was really sheer and took 4 coats to be opaque, but the results were totally worth it! Such a beautiful shimmery teal polish! Most of the time this polish looked teal on my nails, but there were times when I felt like it was an emerald green. Such a perfect color for this time of year!

I was also a huge fan of this polish:

This is Fresh Paint – Let the Games Begin. In this picture it looks almost navy, but in real life it’s not quite that dark. It’s just a really beautiful creamy blue, and it’s opaque in one coat! I don’t know how much I’ll be wearing this color this month, since I plan to hit the red and green Christmas colors pretty hard, but I’m sure I’ll wear this a bunch in January and February. By the way, the white crelly polish with the colored matte glitter is Funky Fingers – Jawbreaker. The formula is just a little too thick and gloppy for me to call it a favorite.

Lastly, I loved this pale blueish-grey polish last month:

The base for this mani is Fresh Paint – Firefly. The second picture shows it on the right next to a white polish, just to prove that firefly isn’t actually white. Firefly’s formula is a little on the thick side, but it is a one coat polish, which is pretty amazing for a light polish! It’s a great color to us as a base for nail art if you don’t want to use a really stark white. I’m not sure how this color compares to OPI – My Boyfriend Scales Walls, but I think it might be close.

So, those are my favorites for last month! I plan to dive head first into Christmas nail art next. ‘Tis the season!

Happy August! I got really excited, probably irrationally excited, when I realized that July was over and I could do my first monthly favorites post. I’ve always enjoyed checking out other bloggers monthly favorites, and for some reason, I just get a huge kick out of being able to do my own.

So, here we go…

Wet n Wild – Tickled Pink

This is just the most beautiful baby pink. It looks so pretty with a tan. It’s the pink I used for this look. This is a polish that I’ve had for a year or so, but I just remembered this month how pretty it is!

Broadway Nails – Sour Apple

This is such a great neon green! The formula is a great and it only cost me $1! The only place I’ve see these sold is at Dollar General / Family Dollar stores. It’s the green I used here.

NYC – Amazon Green from the City Samba collection

This polish is actually a little lighter and greener than it looks in this pic. It’s got a lovely frosty finish and makes me feel like my nails are covered in mint chocolate chip ice cream, which of course is a good thing. I haven’t seen this in stores for a little while, so it might be tough to find. Sorry about that.

China Glaze – Turned Up Turquoise

This color is just do deep and rich! It’s also got a beautiful shimmer that I feel sometimes reflects blue, sometimes green. This polish was promoted as being a summer neon, but I think it’s also part of the permanent line, so you shouldn’t have too much trouble finding it. If you’re a sucker for turquoise polish, do yourself a favor and get this one asap.

NYC – Matte Me Crazy top coat.

I used this top coat for this aforementioned look and I was really happy with how it held up! I actually bumped one of my nails before it was completely dry, but this top coat sort of plumped back up and fixed itself so that you couldn’t even see where I had bumped it! Some matte finishes will start to get glossy after a few days, but this just held up really well.

Funky Fingers – Sand & Stilettos

I already gushed over this polish in my Five Below Haul, but I just can’t get enough of this polish! It’s just SO sparkly and SO holographic. I had it on my toes for a while and I just felt like they were covered in little diamonds when I was in the sun. I used this polish for the little dots on my thumb nail here.

Fresh Paint – Guava

This is the current color on my fingers. Pardon my nail growth. I just love this color so much that I’ve left it on for a whole week, and that’s saying something! This is the most beautiful neon peach / light coral, and it’s one of those neons that just sort of glows at dusk when you’re outside. It’s a dupe for China Glaze – Flip Flop Fantasy and way cheaper. I picked this color up in my Five Below Haul also. I love this color. I love it so much. I need to stop saying that.

So those were my July favorites! What polishes have you been loving so far this summer?